Publications
Danckaert, L. & C. Gianollo. 2021. Towards a unified account of quidem and ne... quidem. In A. M. Martín Rodríguez (ed.), Linguisticae dissertationes: current perspectives on Latin grammar, lexicon and pragmatics. Selected Papers from the 20th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 17-21, 2019). Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas.
Espinal, M. T., Cyrino, S.. 2022. The status of de in Romance indefinites, partitives and pseudopartitives. Studia Linguistica, 76.1: 167-211. doi:10.1111/stul.12184
Espinal, M. T, Cyrino, S. 2022. A syntactically-driven approach to indefiniteness, specificity and anti-specificity in Romance. Journal of Linguistics, 58(3), 535-570. doi:10.1017/S002222672100030X
Espinal, M.T., Giusti, G. 2024. On the property-denoting clitic ne and the determiner de/di. A comparative analysis of Catalan and Italian. Linguistics. doi:10.1515/ling-2022-0084
Espinal, M.T., Puig-Mayenco, E., Etxeberria, U., Tubau, S. accepted, 2023. On the status of NCIs. An experimental investigation on so-called Strict NC languages. Journal of Linguistics.
Espinal, M. T., Real-Puigdollers, C., & Villalba, X. 2024. From a movement verb to an epistemic discourse marker. Linguistic Variation, 24(1), 1–36. doi:10.1075/lv.22006.esp
Etxeberria, U., Tubau, S., Borràs-Comes, J. & Espinal, M.T. 2022. Polarity items in Basque. Experimental evidence for their existential reading. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 40: 485–504 doi:10.1007/s11049-021-09513-2
Etxeberria, U., Espinal, M.T. and Tubau, S. 2024. Establishing the limits between Polarity Sensitivity, Negative Polarity and Negative Concord. Linguistic Typology. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2022-0083
Gianollo, C. 2021. Indefinites and negation in Ancient Greek. Journal of Historical Syntax 5(1–13). 1–38. doi:10.18148/HS/2021.V5I1-13.46.
Gianollo, C. 2021. Feature reanalysis and the Latin origin of Romance Negative Concord. In J. G. Jonsson & T. Eythorsson (eds.), Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change, 113–138. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198832584.003.0006.
Gianollo, C., K. von Heusinger & M. Napoli. 2021. Reference and Quantification in Nominal Phrases: The Current Landscape and the Way Ahead. In C. Gianollo, K. von Heusinger & M. Napoli. eds. Determiners and Quantifiers, 1–28. BRILL. doi:10.1163/9789004473324_002.
Gianollo, C., & G. Silvestri, G. 2022. Key Topics in Semantics: Presupposition, Anaphora, (In)definite Nominal Phrases, Deixis, Tense and Aspect, Negation. In A. Ledgeway & M. Maiden (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics, pp. 695-727. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108580410.028
Greco, M. 2021. Function words and polarity. In: A. Trotzke & X. Villalba. eds. Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks, 66–85. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198871217.003.0004
Greco, M. 2021. From Latin to modern Italian: diachrony of phrasal negation. Lingue Antiche e Moderne, 10, 59–112. doi:10.4424/lam102021-4
Greco, M. 2022. From Latin to Modern Italian: Some Notes on Negation. Languages, 7(1), 46. doi:10.3390/languages7010046
Haddican, B., Etxeberria, U. 2022. Embedded allocutivity in Basque. Syntax, 25, 545–566. doi:10.1111/synt.12238
Li, F., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. 2022. On the interpretation of response particles méi(yǒu) and bù to negative polar questions in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics, 200: 267–281. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2022.08.013
Liu, J., Patil, S., Seres, D., Borik, O., & Le Bruyn, B. 2023. ‘Articleless’ languages are not created equal. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, 27, 381–398. doi:10.18148/sub/2023.v27.1076
Mendia, J. A. 2022. Structural Effects on Implicature Calculation, Journal of Semantics, 39(3): 409–442. doi:10.1093/jos/ffac004
Puig-Mayenco, E. 2022. The sandwich effect in L3 acquisition: A look at the Catalan and Spanish grammars of highly advanced speakers of L3 English, International Journal of Bilingualism, 27(6), 996-1015. doi:10.1177/13670069221118832.
Real-Puigdollers, C., Espinal, M.T., Villalba, X. accepted. Vaya in Spanish: From a judgment to a commitment marker. Journal of Historical Syntax.
Seres, D. 2022. Els plurals escarits en posició d’objecte: un estudi comparatiu del català i el rus. Llengua i literatura 32: 71-96.
Seres, D., Borràs-Comes, J., Espinal, M.T. 2023. Bridging Inferences and Reference Management: Evidence from an Experimental Investigation in Catalan and Russian. Language and Speech doi:10.1177/00238309231173337.
Sheehan, M., Cyrino, S. 2022. Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account. Linguistic Inquiry, doi:10.1162/ling_a_00482
Tsiakmakis, E., Borràs-Comes, J. & Espinal, M.T. 2021. The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek. Journal of Pragmatics, 181: 209-226. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2021.05.017.
Tsiakmakis, E., Borràs-Comes, J. & Espinal, M.T. 2022. Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. doi:10.1007/s11049-022-09565-y
Tsiakmakis, E., Espinal, M.T. 2022. Expletiveness in grammar and beyond. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 7(1). doi:10.16995/glossa.5807
Tsiakmakis, E., Borràs-Comes, J. & Espinal, M.T. 2023. On the distribution and interpretation of voice in Greek anticausatives. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1068058
Trotzke, A., Villalba, X. eds. 2021. Expressive meaning across linguistic levels and frameworks. Oxford University Press.
Trotzke, A., Villalba, X. 2021. Expressive insubordination. In: A. Trotzke & X. Villalba. eds. Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks, Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198871217.003.0006
Tsiakmakis, E., Borras-Comes, J., & Espinal, M.T. 2021. The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek. Journal of Pragmatics, 181: 209-226. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2021.05.017
Tsiakmakis, E., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M.T. 2021. Greek polydefinites revisited: Polydefiniteness as resumed relative clause modification. Journal of Greek Linguistics, 21(1), 151-190. doi:10.1163/15699846-02101001
Tubau, S. 2022. On the Behaviour of the English Negative Quantifier no in Sentential Negation Tests. Atlantis. 44(1). 208–232. doi:10.28914/ATLANTIS-2022-44.1.12
Tubau, S., Etxeberria, U., Espinal, M.T. 2023. A new approach to Negative Concord: Catalan as the case in point. Journal of Linguistics 1–33. doi:10.1017/S0022226723000233.
Villalba, X. 2021. La estructura informativa. En la interfaz entre la sintaxis y la semántica. In M. Leonetti & M. V. Escandell-Vidal (Eds.), La estructura informativa (pp. 185–216). Visor.
Villalba, X. 2022. The functional structure of infinitive relatives in Romance: Consequences for the cartographic approach. Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale, 56: 137-158. doi:10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2022/10/008
Villalba, X. 2023. Exclamatives: An overview. In Guesser, Simone, Marchesan, Ani and Medeiros Junior, Paulo. Wh-exclamatives, Imperatives and Wh-questions: Issues on Brazilian Portuguese (pp. 23-52), De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783111183176-002
Villalba, X. 2024. Expressive commitments: A normative approach to exclamations. International Review of Pragmatics, 16(1), 87-109. doi: 10.1163/18773109-01601004
Villalba, Xavier. 2024. Romance exclamative markers at the syntax-pragmatics interface: A compositional approach to exclamativity. Journal of Pragmatics 226. 64–77. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2024.04.004.